Recap Love Has Fireworks - Episodul 25
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Following Qian Fei’s abrupt departure from the tense meeting, Fang Yun hurried after her to offer an explanation. She admitted that Liao Shiyu had bypassed her entirely to speak directly with Mr. Kong, leaving her completely powerless in the decision. Though she expressed deep regret over the suspension, Fang Yun promised to find a way to bring Qian Fei back to the team.
Grateful for her superior's support, Qian Fei thanked her and returned to her desk to pack her belongings, saving her work files onto a USB drive. While downloading her data, Qian Fei found herself watching a video of Li Yifei delivering an inspiring speech at the annual meeting for his agricultural project, Fulaxida. His words about fighting for what one wants and refusing to let current setbacks dictate the future resonated deeply with her.
Encouraged by his message that hope arrives sooner to those who keep running toward it, she felt her determination return. Meanwhile, the Shanlifang meeting continued without her. Liao Shiyu instructed the business department to utilize their connections to invite prominent industry leaders, while the PR department focused on securing media coverage and social media influencers to maximize the impact of their upcoming event.
To address the hotel group's ongoing PR crisis, Fang Yun proposed hosting a high-profile charity gala, suggesting that they internally reassign sixty percent of their core service staff to implement quiet, confidential rectifications while dedicating the remaining forty percent to the banquet. She argued that the positive publicity from charity donations would successfully shift public attention away from the negative press. Liao Shiyu approved the strategy and asked Li Yifei for his thoughts.
Agreeing that the plan was excellent, Yifei noted that investigating the truth of the scandal would have to wait until after the gala due to their current lack of manpower. When Yifei returned home later that night, he found Qian Fei asleep on the sofa, still wearing her outdoor clothes. Believing she had entirely succumbed to despair, he immediately began lecturing her, demanding to know if she had spent the entire night lying there.
He reminded her that she was only temporarily suspended rather than permanently fired, asking if all the training and guidance he had given her had gone to waste over a single hurdle. Defending herself, Qian Fei snapped that she had done everything in her power, but Liao Shiyu simply targeted and disliked her.
When Yifei urged her not to let herself be pushed around, she handed him her laptop to show him the project she had stayed up all night drafting. To Yifei’s surprise, she had independently conceived the very same idea of hosting a charity gala to resolve the crisis. However, Qian Fei’s proposal featured a crucial difference: she wanted Shanlifang to issue a public apology during the event.
Yifei pointed out that Liao Shiyu would never agree to such a blow to her pride, but Qian Fei countered that many scandals only dragged on because executives refused to swallow their pride. She then admitted that watching his Fulaxida video had prevented her from falling apart, prompting Yifei to tease her about demanding royalties for using his image without filters. Smiling, they both recited his favorite quote about running toward hope.
Reinvigorated, Qian Fei confidently asserted that Shanlifang would eventually have to invite her back. Across town, Liao Shiyu discussed the ongoing crisis with her father over breakfast. Assuring him that the new strategy would quickly resolve the situation, she listened as he urged her to rest after her sleepless night. Her father brought up that Wang Ruohai's mother was currently hospitalized in Shanghai, prompting Shiyu to admit that the woman did not seem to care for her.
He gently advised her not to dwell on minor personal grievances since her future lay in running the entire hotel group, promising that the family company would always stand behind her. At the next joint sponsor meeting, Yifei presented the finalized gala proposal, outlining the venue layout, agenda, and guest list. Recognizing the logical flow of the document, Fang Yun later pulled Yifei aside to ask if the brilliant strategy had actually come from Qian Fei.
Yifei confirmed her suspicion, expressing his profound admiration for Qian Fei's selflessness. He pointed out that even if she had not been suspended, managing this crisis fell completely outside her job description, yet she had still worked tirelessly to help the company without expecting any reward. Fang Yun warmly agreed, deeply impressed by her subordinate’s integrity. The peace between Yifei and Qian Fei did not last long.
Back at the apartment, Yifei complained of hunger and urged a meditating Qian Fei to start cooking. She agreed to prepare the food on the condition that he wash the vegetables, which resulted in Yifei flooding the kitchen sink just to clean a few leaves. The lighthearted bickering turned serious when Qian Fei revealed she had spoken to Zhao De and discovered that the final PR proposal Yifei submitted had been heavily modified.
Furious, she accused him of deleting the public apology, which she considered the most vital component of the gala. Yifei defended his decision, arguing that a client would never blindly follow an investment bank's demands and that Liao Shiyu would have blocked the entire event had the apology remained. He insisted his priority was simply helping her get reinstated, but Qian Fei countered that she had not walked out of the meeting just to secure her job.
Accusing him of being chauvinistic and refusing to understand her principles, she grabbed her bag and stormed out of the apartment, leaving Yifei with a sink full of washed vegetables and no dinner. Qian Fei met up with Dang Yu for dinner, where her friend expressed surprise at how calm she remained despite her suspension.
Confident in her abilities, Qian Fei explained that she was focused on securing a train ticket home for the upcoming Chinese New Year, admitting she did not want to return too early and make her father worry about her job. Dang Yu then vented about her own family, who were relentlessly pressuring her to bring a boyfriend home for the holidays.
When Qian Fei suggested she bring Jun Cheng, Dang Yu dismissed the idea, noting that his doting mother would never allow him to spend the holiday away from her. At the same time, Jun Cheng visited Yifei, who was stuck eating instant noodles alone. Jun Cheng mocked his terrible cooking compared to Qian Fei's and teased him for driving his roommate away.
He criticized Yifei for living under the same roof as the girl he liked without ever confessing his feelings, contrastingly sharing how he quietly supported his own love interest by playing games with her on Yifei’s account. Yifei defended his patience, explaining that because Qian Fei was currently facing immense career instability and family pressure, he refused to take advantage of her vulnerability. He preferred to wait until she was happy and successful before making his move.
When Qian Fei eventually returned home, she found Yifei pretending to be asleep on the couch to avoid taking out the trash. She kindly told him to cook something so he wouldn't starve, and the two officially reconciled over late-night coffee. Qian Fei teased that since she was currently suspended, Yifei was her only source of income, meaning she could not afford to stay angry with her tenant.
Their peace was interrupted when Qian Fei received a phone call from her father, Mr. Su. He eagerly pressured her to bring her boyfriend home for the holidays, even suggesting they could share some fatherly love with him. Panicking, Qian Fei scrambled for excuses, falsely claiming her boyfriend was currently out of the apartment. Overhearing the desperate lie, Yifei took the phone and introduced himself to Mr. Su as her boyfriend, Xiao Li.
He politely explained that while he had to spend this holiday with his own father, he promised to visit Mr. Su next year and look after Qian Fei in the meantime, even asking him to pass along his regards to Ms. He. Qian Fei was left entirely stunned by his convincing performance. She admitted that her initial lie about having a boyfriend had snowballed into an exhausting drama, but Yifei kindly offered to keep playing the role whenever she needed.
When she jokingly warned that he might end up as some girl's live-in husband because of his lack of wealth, Yifei warmly pointed out that she had already taken him in. Meanwhile, Lu Ze faced a frustrating job search. During an interview, the employer praised his strong credentials but ultimately rejected him solely because of his failed startup, claiming that former entrepreneurs lacked the right mindset and were too difficult to manage.
Though Lu Ze argued that the failure had given him invaluable management experience and a deeper understanding of the software engineer role, the interviewer remained unmoved. Later, Lu Ze met with Jingjing, who was sick with anxiety over her upcoming bid for Shanlifang's charity gala. Terrified of competing against major firms and worried that she had previously offended Liao Shiyu, she threatened to abandon the project entirely.
Lu Ze firmly encouraged her, reciting her own motto that only one's career never betrays them. He reassured her that Liao Shiyu was far too high up in the company to micromanage a standard bidding event, successfully convincing her to face the challenge and give it her all. At Fulaxida, Ma Li raised concerns that their trial fields were failing quality checks and that their remaining funds would not last.
He pushed for equity financing, but Yifei suggested they shift their strategy by exploring the plateau regions in Ngapa, promising to have soil samples delivered within three days. Ma Li then revealed that multiple investors had approached him, offering a two-hundred-million-yuan valuation and forty million in Series A funding based on a simple pitch deck. While Ma Li was eager to accept the capital to expand their market reach, Yifei vehemently objected.
Exercising his veto power, Yifei argued that accepting predatory capital at such an early stage would turn the company into a heartless money-making machine and force them to abandon their original vision. He suspected the investors either wanted to exploit his family's Qiansheng Group resources or harbored ulterior motives. Though Ma Li worried about missing out on exponential growth, Yifei assured him that once Fulaxida proved its worth, even Qiansheng would eagerly seek them out.
Looking to resolve their struggle in finding a core R&D team, Yifei found inspiration in Ma Li's comment about outsiders disrupting established industries. Realizing they needed to change their recruitment strategy, Yifei decided that instead of standard hiring, they should look for true allies as partners, immediately thinking of Lu Ze as the perfect candidate.
